Boston | November 1-2, 2013

PNHP's Annual Meeting will be held Saturday, Nov. 2, in Boston. The meeting will be preceded by our popular Leadership Training Institute on Nov. 1.

Registration and hotel information will be available this spring.

The agenda from last year's meeting appears below.

2012 PNHP Annual Meeting
From PPACA to Single Payer:
Next steps for single payer activists

Parc 55 Wyndham
55 Cyril Magnin Street
San Francisco, CA 94102

Tentative Agenda: Saturday, October 27, 2012

General Session:

8:00 a.m.
Registration opens

9:00 a.m.
Welcome to PNHP’s 25th Anniversary Annual Meeting (Room: Cyril Magnin Ballroom)
Garrett Adams, MD, PNHP President

9:15 a.m.
Health Policy Update: PPACA, ACOs, and Delivery System Reform (Room: Cyril Magnin Ballroom)
Steffie Woolhandler, MD, MPH, PNHP co-founder
David Himmelstein, MD, PNHP co-founder

10:30 a.m.
Discussion (Room: Cyril Magnin Ballroom)

11:00 a.m. - Break

11:15 a.m.
The movement for single payer in California and Hawaii (Room: Cyril Magnin Ballroom)
Paul Song, MD, Board member, PNHP California and Courage Campaign
Stephen Kemble, MD, Hawaii Health Authority and PNHP Hawaii

11:40 a.m.
Financing single-payer, HR 676 (Room: Cyril Magnin Ballroom)
Gerald Friedman, PhD, prof. of economics, U. Mass Amherst

12:00 p.m. - Luncheon
Economic crisis in the U.S. and Greece: Implications for Strategy (Room: Cyril Magnin Ballroom)
Doug Henwood and Alex Benos, MD

Respondents:
Andy Coates, MD, PNHP President-elect,
Hank Abrons, MD, Chair, PNHP California

1:30 p.m. - Workshops I

1. Healthcare in Europe (Room: Market Street)
Alex Benos MD, Beat Ringger, and Donald Light, PhD

2. Economic Crisis and single payer strategy – continued from luncheon (Room: Mission I)
Jeoffrey Gordon, MD, and Walter Tsou, MD on the deficit

3. Medicare reform? Privatization, premium support, and single-payer (Room: Cyril Magnin Ballroom)
Oli Fein, MD

4. State-based single payer campaigns: Reports from MD, CA, HI, and VT (Room: Mission II/III)
Eric Naumburg, MD (Maryland), Bill Skeen, MD (California), Stephen Kemble, MD (Hawaii), Peggy Carey, MD, and Betty Keller, MD (Vermont)

5. Beginner’s guide to using social media to promote single-payer (Room: Sutro)
Stanton Shek and Mark Almberg

2:30 p.m. - Break

2:45 p.m. - Workshops II

6. How to form an effective chapter of PNHP (Room: Market Street)
Ann Settgast, MD, Ed Weisbart, MD, and Linda Lieb

7. Medicine and Public Health at the End of Empire: Lessons for PNHP from Cuba, Other Latin American Countries, and Asia (Room: Mission II/III)
Lillian Holloway, MD, and Howard Waitzkin, MD

8. The mental health care crisis and single payer (Room: Mission I)
Pippa Abston, MD, PhD, and Leslie Hartley Gise, MD

9. Divestment, a new tactic for single payer (Room: Sutro)
Rob Stone, MD, and John Harrington

10. Health care in Canada and Taiwan - two single payer systems (Room: Cyril Magnin Ballroom)
Claudia Chaufan, MD, PhD, Claudia Fegan, MD, and Joel Lexchin, MD

3:45 p.m. - Break

4:00 p.m.
PNHP Strategy at 25: Reflections on the past and future (Room: Cyril Magnin Ballroom)
Moderator: Gordon Schiff, MD
Recognition of medical students

5:00 p.m. - Reception (Room: Cyril Magnin Foyer, with hors d'oeuvres, 4th floor)

Ad hoc meetings:
California PNHP chapter reception (Room: Market Street, with hors d'oeuvres)
Health professional student meeting (Room: Mission II/III)
Grassroots organizing using a health and human rights framework (Room: Sutro)

7:00 p.m. - Dinner
Host: Kevin Grumbach, co-founder, CaPA/PNHP California

The movement for a single insurance system in Switzerland, home of the "individual mandate": Lessons for the U.S. (Room: Cyril Magnin Ballroom)
Beat Ringger, Swiss Public Employees Union
David Himmelstein, MD, co-founder, PNHP

Presentation of Dr. Quentin Young Health Activist Awards
Recognition of Leadership Training participants

Closing Remarks: Andy Coates, MD, president-elect, PNHP

Sunday, October 28, 2012

8:00 a.m. - noon
PNHP Board Meeting (closed)
Ad hoc strategy session with PNHP co-founder, David Himmelstein, M.D.